Bar mourns death of ‘Browny’ Speer

Brownlow “Browny” Speer, a well-known Boston attorney who spent nearly 40 years serving the indigent as a public defender, died March 4.
Speer served in the U.S. Army before graduating from Harvard Law School in 1970. He began his legal career at Palmer & Dodge and in 1972 became the director of the Criminal Justice Project ...